Ome, Asatoma,

Sadgamaya,

Tamsoamah, Jotyrgamaya, Mritiurma Amritam Gamaya.

Oam Shanti Shanti Shantihantih.

Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real. Lead us from darkness unto light.

Lead us from death to immortality.

Ome, peace, peace, peace.

Namaste everybody.

Good morning here in New York.

It's a cold and almost wintry morning, but then in other parts of the world, so it's evening

somewhere and nights elsewhere.

Because of the pandemic conditions, we have only a few people, very few people here in the

centre itself, but hundreds and hundreds of people

all over the world watching this on the internet.

So in this Ask Swami session we have questions which are sent in from our virtual audience from all over the world. And I know that we

cannot answer many of the questions. In fact, most of the questions. But there's a fair selection

which we do. We have a team, very good team of volunteers who work on it

and select some questions.

And we try to make it as representative a sample as possible.

It is not necessary that all the questions have to be selected and answered it is rather

where the teaching here is very simple and direct in in most of these questions

that central teaching comes up again and again so it's good to listen to the

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